James Abbott or Jim Abbott may refer to:
- James Abbott (Indian Army officer) (1807–1896), British colonial administrator
- Jim Abbott (politician) (born 1942), Canadian politician
- James W. Abbott (born 1948), American university administrator and politician
- Jim Abbott (born 1967), American baseball player
- S. James Abbott, newsletter editor for the Orthodontic Technicians Association
Famous quotes containing the words james and/or abbott:
“Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“It’s all sorts of middle-aged white men in suits—forests of middle-aged men in dark suits. All slightly red-faced from eating and drinking too much.”
—Diane Abbott (b. 1953)